5 must-read science fiction books like Moon Mayor by Chris Meekings

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Moon Mayor

By: Chris Meekings

3.63

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

After being caught in bed with a headless pageant winner, Abraham Lincoln (no relation) is stripped…

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1. The Crying of Lot 49

By: Thomas Pynchon

3.69

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humor, The Crying of Lot … read more

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"As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"I am having a hallucination now, I don't need drugs for that."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

"the casting had been typically Hollywood: they didn't look or act a bit alike."

-Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

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2. Psycho

By: Robert Bloch

4.00

Format: 158 pages, Paperback

It was a dark and stormy night when Mary Crane glimpsed the unlit neon sign announcing the vacancy … read more

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3. McGlue

By: Ottessa Moshfegh

3.67

Format: None pages,

Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen. Salem, Massachusetts, 1851… read more

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4. The Girl Next Door

By: Jack Ketchum

3.76

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Suburbia. Shady, tree-lined streets, well-tended lawns and cozy homes. A nice, quiet place to grow … read more

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5. Everything the Darkness Eats

By: Eric LaRocca

2.78

Format: 226 pages, Paperback

An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are co… read more

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6. Rouge

By: Mona Awad

3.56

Format: 383 pages, Kindle Edition

From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lone… read more

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"If I had beauty, I decided then, I would never throw it away. I would never give it up."

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"I mean, we all have our dark days. Very dark days, sometimes. When our demons come out to play. No one lives entirely in the light, right?"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

"That I can’t protect you from my terrible places that I still go, can’t help but go because no one protected me, no one saved me, no one ever held out their hand and walked me away. But I’m trying to…"

-Mona Awad, Rouge

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7. Night of the Mannequins

By: Stephen Graham Jones

3.34

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Stephen Graham Jones returns with Night of the Mannequins, a contemporary horror story where a teen… read more

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"Moms are so oblivious. It’s like they live in a bubble of wishful thinking."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

"The tornado the alarms had screamed about ... hadn't actually happened, but around here you never know. Better safe in the cellar than sorry halfway up the sky."

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

"Sometimes you just know what you're doing is the only thing to be doing. That the world is conspiring all around you to make it happen, like, not just giving you permission, but herding you the direc…"

-Stephen Graham Jones, Night of the Mannequins

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8. Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke

By: Eric LaRocca

2.96

Format: 120 pages, Kindle Edition

Sadomasochism. Obsession. Death. A whirlpool of darkness churns at the heart of a macabre ballet… read more

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9. Survivor Song

By: Paul Tremblay

3.62

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

In a matter of weeks, Massachusetts has been overrun by an insidious rabies-like virus that is spre… read more

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  • science fiction
"By then Ramola had begun to see herself as asexual but would not admit this to her mum. She said she was impressed by Mum's vocabulary choice, and added she enjoyed the idea of sex like she enjoyed t…"

-Paul Tremblay, Survivor Song

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10. If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End, #4)

By: Jason Pargin

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling author Jason Pargin’s hilarious and horrifying John Dies at the End seri… read more

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  • science fiction
  • humor
"When Joy looked at humans, she saw animals so detached from the food chain that their own boredom was eating them alive. None of their instincts made sense to them; they were primates adorning themse…"

-Jason Pargin, If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End, #4)

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11. Ghost Eaters

By: Clay McLeod Chapman

3.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

One of Vulture's Best Horror Novels of 2022, this terrifying supernatural page-turner will make you… read more

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12. We Sold Our Souls

By: Grady Hendrix

3.73

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

In the 1990s, heavy metal band Dürt Würk was poised for breakout success -- but then lead singer Te… read more

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"Fight," she finally said. Just fight. Never stop."

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

"— "Do you see where I'm going?" [ROB] — "Yeah, the sparrow kicks the mountain's ass." [KRIS]"

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

"— Do you see where I'm going with this? [ROB] — Yeah, the sparrow kicks the mountain's ass. [KRIS]"

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

"I can't believe that after a lifetime of playing metal, it turns out the world is a shitty country song."

-Grady Hendrix, We Sold Our Souls

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13. Bluejay

By: Megan Stockton

3.71

Format: None pages, ebook

Noah, Jack, and Phil are three average guys who collect horror memorabilia and have a running compe… read more

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14. Commodore

By: Philip Fracassi

4.21

Format: 98 pages, Paperback

There is a legend in the town of Sabbath that tells of a haunted car lost somewhere in the local ju… read more

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15. #thighgap

By: Chandler Morrison

3.91

Format: 119 pages, Paperback

Don’t read with the lights on…this is My Dark Library. A collection of novellas curated by Sadie… read more

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16. House of Rot

By: Danger Slater

3.78

Format: 125 pages, Kindle Edition

The pink mold growing on the walls isn’t the worst thing about Elenya and Myles’ brand new fixer up… read more

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17. The Invention of Sound

By: Chuck Palahniuk

3.48

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A father's decades-long search for his missing daughter. A young woman about to engineer the perfe… read more

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"My job,"

-Chuck Palahniuk, The Invention of Sound

"Haunting her was the idea that we each summon our own death."

-Chuck Palahniuk, The Invention of Sound

"...[T]he only way a person had to process an experience so troubling was by sharing it."

-Chuck Palahniuk, The Invention of Sound

"Her body continued to be the black box of a jetliner that had crashed with no survivors."

-Chuck Palahniuk, The Invention of Sound

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18. Billy Silver

By: Daniel J. Volpe

3.80

Format: 143 pages, Paperback

Billy Silver, a low-life, self-downtrodden junkie, needs some cash to get his next fix. After getti… read more

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19. The Eyes Are the Best Part

By: Monika Kim

3.89

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

“Violent, smart, gruesome and wildly original, this novel pulls readers into a horrific world of mu… read more

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20. Munging

By: Simon McHardy

4.48

Format: None pages, ebook

A morgue worker has big dreams of one day leaving his dead-end job and living it up sipping rum on … read more

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21. Moon Mayor

By: Chris Meekings

3.63

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

After being caught in bed with a headless pageant winner, Abraham Lincoln (no relation) is stripped… read more

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  • science fiction
  • humor
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22. Just to See Hell

By: Chandler Morrison

3.75

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

From the controversial author of Dead Inside comes a collection of eleven stories that delve into t… read more

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23. Moonfellows

By: Danger Slater

4.17

Format: 139 pages, Paperback

ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP INTO THE EXISTENTIAL ABYSS Washington DC. 1906. The inaug… read more

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  • science fiction
  • humor
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24. The Secret Sex Lives of Ghosts

By: Dustin Reade

3.69

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Thomas Johansson can see ghosts after a near death experience, and has made a living killing them f… read more

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25. Snailbutter

By: Ben Fitts

4.47

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

A campy horror novel of regret, synchronously morphing into a monstrous, unexpected outcome. High s… read more

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  • science fiction
  • humor
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26. The Falling Crystal Palace

By: Carl Fuerst

4.71

Format: 356 pages, Paperback

The residents of Sterling, Indiana don't know who they are. Sixty-one year old Tory Stebbins runs a… read more

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27. My Weird Nightmare Baby

By: Riley Odell

4.83

Format: 99 pages, Kindle Edition

When Neil Pierson was young, his father was killed by a tsunami of newborn infants. As an adult, Ne… read more

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28. Jesus of Scumburg

By: Leo X. Robertson

4.18

Format: 72 pages, Kindle Edition

Jesus DeJesus is the lead singer of the Nazi Sympathizers, a punk band whose music excites its audi… read more

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"Because to exist meant making copies and copies of your own DNA with less and less accuracy with time, to lose the spring in your skin, to inhale a poisonous gas that both allowed your next breath an…"

-Leo X. Robertson, Jesus of Scumburg

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29. Cold War

By: John Chambers

4.63

Format: 110 pages, Kindle Edition

"Action-packed and funny as hell. Cold War is high-concept bizarro done right!" - Danger Slater, au… read more

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30. The Best of Bizarro: Volume 1

By: Mike James Davis

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

N A WORLD WHERE BODY AUGMENTATION IS THE NORM, A MAN IN NEED OF A NEW PAIR OF LIPS ENDS UP WITH MOR… read more

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31. Shithole USA

By: Mark Zirbel

4.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

Welcome to Florida! A syphilitic plague has ravaged the Sunshine State, transforming its residen… read more

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20 Top fiction books like Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman

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C.J. Leede

3.78

Transform Your Habits

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Philip Fracassi

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Episode Thirteen

Craig DiLouie

3.53

Transform Your Habits

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Nat Cassidy

3.86

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